http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8691428/London-riots-international-reaction.htmlCHINARiot-swept Britain is tasting the "bitter fruit" of its failure to introduce Chinese-style controls on social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook, Chinese state media crowed on Tuesday, while raising questions over whether London could be trusted to stage a safe 2012 Olympic Games. "The West have been talking about supporting internet freedom, and oppose other countries' government to control this kind of websites, now we can say they are tasting the bitter fruit
and they can't complain about it,"
Libya
Libyan state-run Al-Jamahiriyah TV showed a programme called "Homeland's Desire". The presenter, Yusuf Shakir, midway into the programme, began to address the British people in English, urging them to "defeat this British regime" which "killed their brothers". He said the Libyan people and their leader supported "black power in America and Britain" and always defended blacks who "suffered racial discrimination" in the UK. He said blacks and the poor took to the streets in London to demonstrate against the British "fascist" government.
IRAN
The conservative Resalat newspaper, in a commentary headlined "unrest spreads from Tottenham to Brixton", called the protests the "worst possible news for David Cameron's coalition government" and blamed "human rights abuses"
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe: "Britain I understand is on fire, London especially and we hope they can extinguish their fire, pay attention to their internal problems and to that fire which is now blazing all over, and leave us alone. :rofl:
"We do not have any fire here and we do not want them to continue to create unnecessary problems in our country. We want peace, and the people of Zimbabwe want peace.
Pakistan
An editorial in the Express Tribune newspaper wondered how a killing could erupt into riots, when previous examples of police brutality have not. "The answer may be found in the austerity measures taken by the Cameron government," it said.
"The brutal spending cuts led to violent protests and there is every indication that alienation has increased thanks to the steep decline in the middle class standard of living." "We in Karachi are bemused," she said. "It turns out that civilised land is not quite so civilised after all." But the violence has also been met with glee among a small number of right-wing, anti-western fundamentalists who are furious at what they see as foreign meddling in Pakistan's domestic politics.
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